BoomerD
No Lifer
- Feb 26, 2006
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It's a local distribution company - we are Budweiser's only distributor in the entire state. The salesmen are paid 70/30 split for salary/commission on top of their respective bonuses. You can make decent money as a salesman where I currently work, but since I live in an oil field town, beer sales are directly tied to how busy the oil field is in the area and since it's been dead since 2015, all our sales are way down. Nobody can even come close to their projected numbers, so every month the sales team loses their monthly commissions and their bonuses. If I'm going to stake my paycheck on the mercy of the oil field, I'd rather be working in the oil field and be making $30+ per hour and working 110+ hours a week again.
As for contacts, where I live, it's far better to know people high up in the oil and gas industry than in sales. Though I suppose it would be different if I lived in a place where oil field or industrial work was trumped by other industries. Sales people are a dime a dozen around here and usually consist of car or mobile home salesmen. That being said, I have thought about trying it out because even oil and gas companies need salesmen, but the people who get those jobs are generally the ones who personally know the owners of other companies - the ones who can give them lines on deals and under the table dealing. It's an extremely close-knit group for most of the cases.
Edit: Just noticed your quote says BoomerD, though that person hasn't even commented in this thread.
BoomerD hasn't commented? That blabberfingers commented in post 7 above!
Have you considered seeking your "fame and fortune" elsewhere? It' easy to do...if you don't have ties to hold you there.
Anyway...are you personally a good fit for the sales job? Some come to it naturally...others struggle. I'd fucking starve as a salesman. Just don't like people emough to do it. <shrug>
It sounds to me like the change to tbe other delivery job is a no-brainer. More money, better bennies, perhaps better worki g conditions...BUT, if you have lots of beer delivery experience...could you work for a different distributor in a different city/state?